CDOT
What Good Is New Bike Safety Tech If CDOT Still Won’t Build Safe Streets?
The agency is funding "innovative solutions" for bike safety — the ideas aren't bad, but they're no substitute for agency action to redesign dangerous streets.
May 24, 2017
It’s Probably Time to Plan a Denver-Centric Transport Measure
Whether or not the state tax ends up passing, it's time for Denver to think about funding city needs with city funds.
April 24, 2017
Colorado Senate Chops Funding for Walking, Biking, and Transit While Softening the Blow for CDOT
A $677 million transportation bill that would have marginally funded transit, walking, and biking has jumped through one hoop at the Republican-controlled Colorado Senate and emerged thinner, with even less guaranteed money for what legislators call "multimodal" transport.
April 19, 2017
Feds: CDOT’s Terrible I-70 Widening Isn’t Terrible Enough to Qualify as a Civil Rights Violation
The Federal Highway Administration last week decided to double down on the tradition of dismissing civil rights complaints from residents who want the Colorado Department of Transportation to nix plans for a wider I-70 in their backyards.
April 17, 2017
No One Expects to Ride Transit for Free, So Why Should Roads Be Any Different?
The bill leaves plenty of room for toll lanes down the, er, road. As it should. But Colorado has to get over the instinctual and counterproductive aversion to asking people to pay for the roads they use.
March 31, 2017
Driverless Cars: Will Colorado Legislators Put People or Profits First?
In its rush to get automated vehicles on the road, will Colorado prioritize safe city streets or a burgeoning multi-billion industry?
March 16, 2017
Breaking Down What the State Transport Bill Does for Walking, Biking, and Transit
"It's definitely a good step forward."
March 10, 2017
CDOT’s Blind Spot — Wider Highways and New Tech Won’t Cure Congestion
CDOT Executive Shailen Bhatt told north Denver residents during a public meeting last month that more lanes will actually improve air quality.
March 6, 2017
CDOT Director Shailen Bhatt on Rising Traffic Deaths: Not Our Fault
Traffic fatalities in Colorado have spiked 24 percent in two years, and pedestrian and cyclist deaths have reached a 15-year high. But Colorado DOT chief Shailen Bhatt won't redesign streets to reduce the death toll.
February 1, 2017
I-70 Earns National Notoriety for Blighting Denver Neighborhoods
Tearing down I-70 in north Denver neighborhoods and replacing it with a tree-lined boulevard would help mend the scars created by the freeway in the 1960s. That's why the Congress for New Urbanism included I-70 on its new list of "Freeways Without Futures."
January 30, 2017
